Motivational Quotes

Humankind

People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire,why wasn't it done the other way?

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Humankind

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

Sumner, Charles

The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

Lippmann, Walter

Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Twain, Mark

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another

Churchill, Winston

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

Lincoln, Abraham

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

Miller, Henry

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

Lawrence, D. H.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Churchill, Winston

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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People can be divided into three classes, the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no idea what has happened.

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Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Kennedy, John F.

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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

Doren, Carl Van

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The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts.

Kent, Sir Arthur

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Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Hoffer, Eric

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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

Twain, Mark

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As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts is well within living memory. The world of today is as different from the world I was born in as that world was from Julius Caesar s. I was born in the middle of human history, to date, roughly. Almost as much has happened since I was born as happened before.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge.

Blake, William

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There are two kinds of men who never amount to much -- those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

Curtis, Cyrus H. K

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To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.

Crowley, Aleister

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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

Mencken, H. L.

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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Watts, Alan W.

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Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.

Rogers, Will

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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

Butler, Samuel

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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

Sarraute, Nathalie

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Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

Lessing, Doris

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Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Genesis 3:5]

Bible

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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Wilde, Oscar

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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

Temple, Sir William

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I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Socrates

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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

Donne, John

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I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Antonius, Marcus

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What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men -- each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature -- are shot down wholesale.

Hesse, Hermann

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Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

Twain, Mark

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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Steinbeck, John

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Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

Hamilton, Edith

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I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.

Terence

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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilization concerns man's behavior to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.

Mayhew, Dr Edward

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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Calvino, Italo

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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Hugo, Victor